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Slava Isusu Khrystu!
Just a brief posting to wish all the good members of the Byzantine Forum a Blessed and Happy Thanksiving!
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A blessed Christmas to you, as well, John, and to all of my brothers and sisters here who are celebratig Thanksgiving on the New Calendar (couldn't resist)
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Let us all give thanks to the Lord for the blessings and bounties that have been given to us, not just today, but all the days of our lives. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Indeed, 'Let us give thanks unto the Lord'!
Let us be mindful of the great bounty God has blessed this country with when we sit down to our lovely meals today.
Happy and blessed Thanksgiving to us all!
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If I have posted this prayer before, forgive the redundancy. It is from the 1941 hymnal of the Evangelical & Reformed Church and is probably one of the finest Thanksgiving litanies ever composed. Response = Thanks be to God.
Almighty God our heavenly Father, from whom comes every good and perfect gift,
we remember your loving kindness and your tender mercies which have been ever of old,
and with grateful hearts we lift up our thanksgiving:
For all your gifts which you have bestowed upon us,
for the life you have given us and world in which we live,
let us bless the Lord:
For the work we are enabled to do and the truth we are permitted to learn;
for whatever of good there has been in our past lives,
and for all the hopes which lead us on toward better things,
let us bless the Lord:
For the order and constancy of nature;
for the beauty and bounty of the world;
for day and night, summer and winter, seed-time and harvest;
for the varied gifts of loveliness and use that each season brings,
let us bless the Lord:
For all the comforts and gladness of life;
for our homes and families;
for our friends and all pure pleasure;
for the love, sympathy, and good will of persons near and far;
let us bless the Lord:
For all the blessings of civilization, wise government and legislation;
for education and all the privileges we enjoy through literature, science, and art;
for the help and counsel of those who are wiser than ourselves,
let us bless the Lord:
For all true knowledge of You and the world in which we live;
for the life of truth and righteousness and divine communion which you have called us;
for prophets and apostles, and all earnest seekers after truth;
for all lovers and helpers of humankind, and all godly and gifted men and women,
let us bless the Lord
For the gift of your Son Jesus Christ,
and for all the helps and hopes which are ours as his disciples;
for the presence and inspiration of your Holy Spirit;
for all the ministries of your grace and truth
let us bless the Lord:
For the desire and power to help others;
for every opportunity of serving our generation according to your will,
and showing forth the grace of Christ to others:
let us bless the Lord:
For all the discipline of life;
for the tasks and trials by which we are trained to patience, self-knowledge and self conquest,
and brought to closer sympathy with those who suffer;
for problems which have lifted us nearer to you
and drawn us into deeper fellowship with Jesus Christ;
let us bless the Lord:
For the sacred and tender ties which bind us to the unseen world,
for the faith which dispels the shadows of earth,
and fills the saddest and the last moments of life with an immortal hope;
let us bless the Lord:
Almighty and everlasting God,
who has graciously given us the fruits of the earth in their season,
we yield humble and hearty thanks for these your bounties,
asking you to give us grace rightly to use them to your glory
and the relief of those that need,
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who with you and the Holy Spirit live and reign,
One God, for ever and ever.
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Dear Pastor Thomas,
That is absolutely beautiful...I wish I had it to have read for my family before Thanksgiving meal.
Asking for your prayers,
Alice
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Wonderful prayer..says it all. Thanks for sharing it, Pastor Thomas.  We printed up scriptures of thanksgiving and placed one under each salad plate. When we all came to sit at the table we had them lift up the plate and each read out loud a Thanksgiving scripture. Over half were from the Psalms. Lots of praise and thanksgiving to God in those. "O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.: (Psalm 107:1)
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Liturgically we use this prayer in late September when the congregation celebrates "Harvest Home". We sing the refrain of the hymn "For the Beauty of the earth" as the response:
"Christ, our God, to you, we raise,
this our hymn of grateful praise.'
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Beautiful prayer, Pastor. Thank you for sharing it.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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